<div><div dir="auto">You’re not very far away. If you’d like, I could come down some day, take a look around, and brainstorm a battle plan with you. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">-DVick</div><div dir="auto">ETCP#427</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Mar 7, 2019 at 1:50 PM PJ Veltri via Stagecraft <<a href="mailto:stagecraft@theatrical.net">stagecraft@theatrical.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi all,</div><div><br></div><div>I've recently been appointed the interim co-technical director for our school district in Metro-Detroit and was surprised in a meeting that was billed as a discussion of upgrading auditorium seating with a request from the superintendent to look into upgrading the space to get it into tip-top shape and at a level with the other four spaces in our district.</div><div><br></div><div>My main area of concern is the counterweight system and the method of install of the FOH truss which, from use and my experience, both need a total overhaul and the district seems willing to at least explore the idea. I was directed to "reach-out" to rigging companies for "support" and have absolutely no idea how to move forward on that, or really what that means. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Does anyone have any advice on what my next steps are? Do I call my favorite two companies and ask what their recommendations are? Do i get a few different inspectors in? <br></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks!<br></div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr" class="m_-8572962716598520983gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">PJ Veltri<div>Asst. Technical Director</div><div>Grosse Pointe Public School System</div><div>E: <a href="mailto:veltrip@gpschools.org" target="_blank">veltrip@gpschools.org</a></div><br></div></div></div></div></div>
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